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Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 07/07/05 19:33
> janbro wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> my research hasn't turned anything useful up.
>> Probably 'cause I don't have enough info.
>> I've been playing around with the ereg function.
>> What I was wondering is what is the ^ for like
>> in the below example?
>> ereg('[^[:space:]a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{1,}', $name)
>>
>> thx
>> janbro
> it denotes the "start of the string"
Actually, in the above case it doesn't... from the URL referenced...
For example, the character class [aeiou] matches any lower case vowel,
while [^aeiou] matches any character that is not a lower case vowel.
If the ^ is outside of the []'s then it matches the start of the string...
-philip
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